Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-44394
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Keystone before 29.0.2. The Keystone federated token rescoping mechanism does not propagate the original token's expiry to the newly issued token. When a federated user rescopes a token via POST /v3/auth/tokens, the handle_scoped_token() function in the mapped authentication plugin returns response data without an expires_at value. The token provider falls back to issuing a token with a fresh default TTL. By rescoping repeatedly before each token expires, a user can maintain access indefinitely, bypassing operator-configured token lifetime policies. This is a variant of CVE-2012-3426. Only deployments using federated identity (SAML2, OpenID Connect) are affected.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 16.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.0
Products affected by CVE-2026-44394
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:14.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:14.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:14.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:15.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:15.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:16.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:16.0.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:16.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:16.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:17.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:17.0.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:17.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:18.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:18.0.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:18.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:19.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:19.0.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:19.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:20.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:20.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:20.0.1-7
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:21.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:21.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:21.0.1-6
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:22.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:22.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:22.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:23.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:23.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:23.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:24.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:24.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:25.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:26.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:26.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:26.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:27.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:27.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:28.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:28.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:29.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:openstack:keystone:29.0.1-12